September 20, 2024
Tag: Maud Adams
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The Maud Adams You Don’t Know
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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own…
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February 21, 2023 5 Comments
The Candee Rubber Company could be one of the world’s largest firms that you have never heard about. The L. Candee Company of Connecticut built the world’s largest rubber shoe factory and sold galoshes to millions of people around the world. At one time in the 1890s they made 30,000 pairs a day!